Thailand can be seen as representative of the East Asian Miracle, as it had successfully developed during 1980's and the early 1990's. One of the factors that provided for Thailand's economic growth was positive inducement of FDI, which, however, became one of the causes of Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. An important concept that has been contributing to the re-development of Thailand after the financial crisis is "Sufficiency Economy", which is based on the philosophy of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Sufficiency Economy supposes to lead people to a balanced way of life and to be the main sustainable development theory for the country (UNEP). The 9th Economic and Social Development plan (2002-2006) took this concept as the basis to national development, and the role of agriculture sector has been reconsidered within the notion of sustainable development. Under a Sufficiency Economy paradigm, together with the Dual Track Policy of the Thaksin government, environmentally friendly agriculture and value added products have been strategically promoted. In the case of the rice market, high quality rice, such as GI fragrant rice, together with organic rice, functional rice and so on, have recently been promoted both in domestic and international rice markets.

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This paper aims to analyze the food and agricultural products market in the period of high economic growth of Vietnam, focusing on the remarkable changes in food consumption. As the national economy has maintained steady growth since 2000s, the Vietnamese people have experienced a significant change of diet, not just in terms of the quantity of food consumption but also in the quality. This has clearly contributed to the improvement of the nutritional health of the people and enhanced pleasure at the table. At the same time, however, notable increases in the risk of food poisoning are seen due to consumption of purchased foods that are produced, distributed and/ or processed through inadequate procedural requirements and in unhygienic facilities. With these changes and trends in mind, both the public and private sector should honestly keep working toward providing a highly reliable and safety food system for consumers.

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To increase the Chinese grain self-sufficiency rate and insure food security, from 2004 three agricultural systems were enacted: the minimum grain purchase pay system, the agricultural tax exemption system, and the food direct subsidy system. As a result, since 2004, the grain self-sufficiency rate has remained over 95 percent. On the other side, the plant oil self sufficiency rate has stayed around 40 percent, as the production of soybeans, the main material of plant oil, has remained the same. In this sense, China has given priority to a stable grain supply. On the other hand, the planted area of peanuts, another source material for plant oil, has been sharply increased from 2008 to 2010, especially in Liaoning Province. On this basis, this article uses the case of the main producing area, the Fumeng Prefecture in Liaoning Province, to clarify the relationship between the expansions of the peanut planted area and the governmental duties.

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Tea farming in Taiwan has a long history. Taiwan oolong tea is appreciated globally. Nowadays the expansion of low-priced from Vietnam or Mainland China in global markets has thrown Taiwan tea into big trouble. Against this background, Taiwan tea producers are being forced to upgrade quality. The present research has identified a survey tea farmer in Luku, Nantou, Taiwan. This tea farmer has established his own tea brand and operates on the basis of organic farming without agricultural chemicals in order to maintain the high quality of his tea. However, as harvesting the tea by hand requires technical skill, it is necessary for this farmer to hire many temporary laborers for labor-intensive harvests. The problem faced by this farmer is that it has become increasingly difficult to hire temporary Taiwanese labor through the labor agent called "gong-tou". Moreover, many of the available laborers are from Vietnam due to immigrant marriages. Despite these insecure circumstances, if Taiwanese tea production is to remain globally competitive, it is inevitable that Taiwan tea farming will increasingly depend on such "gong-tou" conditions in future.

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The number of Agricultural Machinery Service Organizations (AMSOs) has been increasing rapidly in China since 2007, when the 'Law of the People's Republic of China on Specialized Farmers Cooperatives' was enacted and came to be enforced, reaching 28,000 at the end of 2011. Not only is the number increasing, but also the commissioned operation services taken over by AMSOs now accounts for 12 percent of total agricultural machinery operation in China at the end of 2011. At the same time, AMSOs actively obtain farm land-use rights from small-scaled farmers by lease. The purpose of this paper is to outline the mechanism of the establishment of AMSOs through a case study from Henan province and to clarify the reasons why AMSOs positively promote land-use rights movement.

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